🇨🇳🇮🇷⚡️ — Chinese shipping company COSCO Shipping suspends its sailings through the Strait of Hormuz until further notice.

🇮🇶⚔️🇮🇷 The Kurdistan Freedom Party (PAK), a Kurdish militant group opposing Iran revealed an all-female unit that is a key part of its forces.

Led by 27-year-old Adila, this unit is ready to confront Iranian forces. They declare full readiness to sacrifice themselves for Israel and the US in the fight against the Islamic Republic of Iran.

🔗 Visioner (@visionergeo)

🇺🇸⚔️🇮🇷 The Pentagon has burned through so many missiles in the Iran exchange that Trump is dragging Lockheed and Raytheon CEOs into the White House like a failing factory boss demanding overtime. The military admits the Iran strike consumed more long-range munitions than 4 years of Ukraine.

Trump is posting fantasies about “unlimited supply” while Raytheon can barely promise to “eventually” reach 1,000 Tomahawks a year and the Pentagon only budgeted 57 for 2026.

The industrial base is so hollowed out they’re threatening contractors with punishment if they don’t ramp up, even though the system physically can’t produce at wartime tempo.

America just showed the world that one regional confrontation with Iran drained decades of planning assumptions.

🔗 Thomas Keith

—❗️🇮🇷/🇹🇷/🔹 BREAKING: 'Iran launched a ballistic missile at a NATO base in Turkey' – Turkish Ministry of Defense

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🇮🇳🛢🇶🇦 Fertilizer manufacturers in India are beginning to cut output after Qatari supplies of LNG were suspended

Some manufacturers, like Indian Farmers Fertiliser Cooperative Ltd., have started reductions at certain urea plants, according to people familiar with the matter, who asked not to be identified. Any prolonged disruption may compel companies to shut facilities, the people added, without providing details.

LNG is the primary feedstock for the production of urea, serving as both an energy source and a key input in the manufacturing process of the most widely used fertilizer.

India’s production cuts come as supply disruptions ripple through commodities markets, raising prices and stoking broader economic concerns. Rising prices of other raw materials used to make fertilizer, such as ammonia and sulfur, are adding to fears of higher production costs.

Pakistan’s Sui Northern Gas Pipelines Ltd. has also informed customers it will be unable to supply regasified LNG to their fertilizer plants due to the Middle East conflict, according to a company notice seen by Bloomberg. The country receives most of its LNG from Qatar and the suspension takes effect from midnight Wednesday.

If the cuts last, India could be forced to step up costly imports ahead of peak agricultural demand during the monsoon season that begins in June. The country is the world’s biggest grower and exporter of rice and No. 2 producer of sugar, wheat and cotton.

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🇷🇺🗯🇺🇦👀👩‍💻✈️ — 📰 ZeroHedge | Telegram Has Reportedly Become A Pressing National Security Threat For Russia | Authored by Andrew Korybko via substack | March 3, 2026:

"Authorities in Russia believe that Ukraine has quick access to Russian servicemen’s messages and exploits this for military purposes, which wouldn’t be possible without some degree of complicity on Telegram’s part, thus impugning its founder’s character after he denied working with foreign spooks.

The FSB claimed to have “reliable information that the Ukrainian armed forces and intelligence agencies are able to quickly obtain information posted on the Telegram messenger and use it for military purposes.” This coincides with the government allegedly throttling Telegram on the grounds that it’s not in compliance with local laws, which preceded reports that it’ll be banned on 1 April. The authorities denied that they have nay such plan but there’s no doubt that Telegram is now controversial in Russia.

Speculation about Ukraine’s access to the messages sent by Russian servicemen on that platform, which the FSB also touched upon in their two-sentence press release, is credible in light of founder Pavel Durov’s brief detention by the French authorities in 2024. Although he vehemently denied that he cut a deal with them for granting their authorities access to certain users’ messages and has since accused them of askingz him to ban conservative Romanian accounts, he might be lying and it could all be an act."

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✈️ Jet Fuel Prices Surge as Iran War Disrupts Middle East Exports

Jet fuel prices are soaring around the world as oil traders grapple with the fallout of the Iran war, adding to wider concerns about global inflation.

In Europe, they’ve spiked to the highest since 2022 — the year that Russia began its invasion of Ukraine — while prices in the US and Asia hit a more than two-year high, according to figures from General Index. Costs are rallying faster than crude oil, which has risen as the Middle East conflict destabilizes energy output and disrupts a crucial shipping route in the region.

The European Union’s aviation fuel market is particularly at risk from Middle Eastern oil export disruption caused by the war. Half of the bloc’s jet fuel imports pass through the Strait of Hormuz, compared with only about 12% for diesel, Eugene Lindell, head of refined products at consultancy FGE NexantECA, said on a webinar on Wednesday.

Energy and commodity markets have been shaken since the conflict began at the weekend. Prices of gas, diesel and even aluminum have also climbed, in addition to soaring freight costs, which threaten to filter through to prices consumers pay.

Jet fuel’s massive rally is showing up in other key market metrics. In northwest Europe, the fuel’s premium to crude oil hit a record high of more than $70 a barrel in data going back to 2008, according to General Index figures. In Asia, the differential between jet and diesel-type fuels — often called the regrade — reached its widest since 2023.

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🇮🇶⚡️📉❗️ — Iraq’s Electricity Ministry says a total blackout has hit the entire national power grid across all provinces.

A ministry spokesman says authorities are investigating the cause of the outage.

🇮🇷⚔️🇺🇸 Nearly $2 billion in US military assets torched as Iran strikes back across the Gulf

Washington’s war on Iran is already bleeding hardware. Estimates compiled by Anadolu indicate that nearly $2 billion in US military assets have been damaged or destroyed since Saturday. The most costly blow came at Al-Udeid Air Base in Qatar, where Iran struck a $1.1 billion AN/FPS-132 early warning radar system. Doha confirmed the hit. In Bahrain, missiles slammed into the US Navy’s Fifth Fleet headquarters in Manama, reportedly wiping out two AN/GSC-52B satellite communications terminals and several large buildings.

The losses mounted quickly. Three F-15E Strike Eagles were downed in a friendly fire incident involving Kuwaiti air defenses, adding an estimated $282 million to the bill. Iran also claims it destroyed the AN/TPY-2 radar component of the THAAD system deployed in the UAE, a piece of hardware valued at roughly $500 million. Open source satellite imagery suggests a direct hit. Combined, the damage amounts to an estimated $1.9 billion in US equipment degraded across the region in just days.

At least seven US military sites have been targeted across West Asia, from Bahrain and Kuwait to Iraq, the UAE and Qatar. Imagery and verified footage cited by The New York Times showed repeated strikes on the US installation at Erbil International Airport, with multiple structures damaged and fires burning into Monday. Jebel Ali Port in Dubai, one of the US Navy’s most frequented regional ports of call, also saw smoke rising from a building inside a fenced US naval zone. US diplomatic missions were not spared. Drones struck the US Embassy in Riyadh, reportedly hitting a CIA station inside the compound according to The Washington Post, while facilities in Kuwait City and Dubai sustained additional attacks, forcing closures and evacuations.

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🇪🇸❌🇺🇸 — NEW: Spain's Foreign Minister José Manuel Albares has firmly denied statements by White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt claiming that Spain would “cooperate militarily” with the United States and says the Spanish position remains unchanged.

Our position of "no to war" remains clear and forceful.